History & Archaeology

History & Archaeology

On the trail of ancient air pollution

By replicating a Roman pottery kiln, it was determined, among other things, how much fuel it must have consumed. © University of Trier ...
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History & Archaeology

Copper made Bronze Age city rich

Chests full of Bronze Age copper slag bear witness to brisk copper mining in Hala Sultan Tekke. © T. Bürge ...
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History & Archaeology

Notre-Dame is the earliest iron-reinforced cathedral

View of Notre-Dame Cathedral during the restoration work after the great fire. © Maxime L'Héritier/ CC by 4.0 ...
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History & Archaeology

Monkeys inadvertently make stone tools

Macaques cracking nuts with stones. © Lydia V. Luncz Macaques often use stones to crack hard-shelled nuts. Some of their tools break during use -...
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History & Archaeology

Remains of the earliest horsemen discovered

Grave of a Yamnaya man with clear evidence of regular horseback riding. © Michał Podsiadło The use of horses as mounts and for transportation was...
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History & Archaeology

Haithabu: Hoard with gold jewelry discovered

These golden earrings were buried at Haithabu 800 years ago. © ALSH Around 800 years ago, a traveler buried gold jewelery and around 30 silver...
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History & Archaeology

A sphinx with Emperor Claudius’ face?

The Sphinx in the basin of the ancient Temple of Horus. © Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...
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History & Archaeology

Bow and arrow 54,000 years ago

This stone arrowhead is around 54,000 years old. © Laure Metz/ Ludovic Slimak The invention of the first firearms such as the bow and arrow...
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History & Archaeology

Settlement of the early megalithic culture discovered

Reconstruction of the megalithic settlement of Le Peu. © Ard et al. antique, CC by 4.0 ...
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History & Archaeology

Laser treatment for medieval cathedral

View of the Halberstadt Cathedral. © Wlad74/ iStock The Halberstadt Cathedral is one of the few Gothic cathedrals in the French architectural style in Germany,...
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History & Archaeology

Friedrich Daniel Bassermann – Level-headed string puller

Friedrich Daniel Bassermann was elected to the National Assembly in the Franconian constituency of Stadtprozelten. The 37-year-old Mannheim publisher's bookseller had considerable parliamentary experience....
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History & Archaeology

years of lead

Security forces and onlookers at the scene of Moro's kidnapping in Rome. AKG / TT News Agency / TT NYHETSBYRAN ...
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History & Archaeology

Bad luck with silver mining in Germania?

From the air, the remains of a double ditch around a former Roman camp can be seen in a grain field, which was apparently...
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History & Archaeology

Meiji Era in Japan: Regime Change as an Opportunity

The era of the shogun and samurai ended in Japan with the Meiji Restoration. © Martin Dimitrov/ iStock ...
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History & Archaeology

Did drought bring down the Hittites?

View of the remains of the Lion Gate in the ramparts of the Hittite capital, Hattusa. ©Benjamin Anderson ...
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History & Archaeology

Echoes of ancient curse tablets in the Bible

Front of a lead curse tablet from around 100 AD © Leibniz Center for Archeology (LEIZA)/ R. Müller ...
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History & Archaeology

Encrypted letters of Mary Stuart discovered

Mary Stuart after a portrait by François Clouet. club/iStock A famous author is emerging: “Codebreakers” have identified 50 encrypted letters from a French archive as...
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History & Archaeology

Ancient Oldowan stone tools discovered

Various Oldowan stone tools from Nyayanga. © TW Plummer, JS Oliver, and EM Finestone/ Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project ...
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History & Archaeology

How Poker Has Evolved Over The Last Decade

Poker has experienced a seismic shift in popularity over the past decade. Once considered to be mostly played by professional gamblers, it is now...
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History & Archaeology

Largest collection of cuneiform texts digitized and published

A tablet with a Babylonian text fragment in cuneiform. © LMU 300,000 lines of text from ancient Mesopotamia, including previously unknown versions of the Epic...
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